Good and Evil

[Pyrrho]

I don't accept that morality is subjective, and that good and evil are arbitrary distinctions made on the whims of each individual's preferred object of gratification.

I very much agree that morality isn't a matter of individual whim, for reasons given in this thread a while back:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-33164-po...#pid935583

I think there are things that actually are good and evil, regardless if everyone wakes up tomorrow and decides otherwise.

Although I can sympathize with feeling that way, do you have any reason to suppose that that is correct?  Or is it just that you have a very strong feeling, a feeling that is deeply ingrained in you?  If the latter of these, that fits very well with Hume, going back even further in the thread:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-33164-po...#pid934918

Although I presently feel as you do, if everyone really did change tomorrow (which is implausible in reality; or, rather, impossible, as not everyone's brain can physically change like that magically), then both you and I would feel differently about it tomorrow.

In fact, it is so deep in human nature, it, like many other traits, are shared with other animals.  See, for a start on this:

http://www.livescience.com/24802-animals...-book.html